Our Experts
Oxfam staff are able to provide expert comment or background briefings to media on a number of specialist topics. This ranges from country-specific comment to more generic issues relating to our work in areas such as labour rights, impacts of climate change and humanitarian disaster response.
Media wishing to speak to any of the Oxfam spokespeople profiled below, or with an enquiry on a topic related to our work not listed, should contact the Oxfam media team in the first instance.
Information on our directors can be found here, or if you’d like to request a speaker from Oxfam please contact us.
Our spokespeople on the issues
Chief Executive, Oxfam Australia
Lyn Morgain
Lyn Morgain is the Chief Executive of Oxfam Australia.
Prior to her role at Oxfam Australia, Lyn was the Chief Executive of cohealth, Victoria’s largest community health organisation. Lyn has been an executive leader in public policy, not for profit organisations and government for the past 25 years.
As leader of Oxfam Australia, Lyn oversees the delivery of a broad range of long-term development programs, advocacy campaigns and humanitarian responses. Oxfam works in partnership with local organisations, governments and decision-makers to deliver outcomes such as clean water and sanitation, gender equality, livelihood support, justice for First Peoples, labour rights, food security, and support for communities affected by climate change.
Lyn has spent her career advocating for the rights of disadvantaged peoples and she is passionate about strength-based approaches that engender community ownership and control over service design, development and delivery.
Lyn is a sought after facilitator, chair and speaker and has published numerous journal articles on primary care and the social determinants of health.
She is a member of the Victorian Justice Health Ministerial Advisory Committee and the Community Health Taskforce. She is the interim Chair of the national Social Determinants of Health Alliance.
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Chrisanta Muli | Director Programs and Transformation
Areas of responsibility: International development, humanitarian programs, strategic planning, cross-agency collaboration
Chrisanta is an impact-driven feminist and is passionate about gender equality and social justice. With 20 years of experience in the international development sector as both a practitioner and academic, she has worked as a consultant for several NFP organisations. She has also been a senior lecturer at various Australian universities.
For the past four years, Chrisanta has served as the CEO of One Girl, an organisation whose mission is to work and walk with girls and their communities to break down barriers that girls face in accessing quality education.
Lucia Goldsmith | Head of Humanitarian
Lucia is the Head of Humanitarian for Oxfam Australia and oversees our emergency responses.
Lucia has over 14 years’ experience in humanitarian and development programming. Prior to joining Oxfam Australia in 2017, she held various operational and coordination roles with international NGOs at HQ and field level in Europe, the Middle East and Africa.
Her experience includes overseeing humanitarian and development programs in Syria and Iraq and leading the South Sudan NGO Forum – a network of over 300 registered international and national NGOs providing humanitarian and/or development assistance to the people of South Sudan.
Lucia holds a doctorate and a master’s degree in international relations with a specialisation in peace and conflict studies.
Melissa Bungcaras | Climate Justice Strategic Lead
Areas of expertise: Climate change adaptation and resilience, international climate policy, climate finance
Melissa is responsible for overseeing the implementation and monitoring of Oxfam Australia’s climate justice strategy. She has worked alongside communities, non-profit organisations and government across the Asia Pacific to advocate for stronger climate action from local to global levels. Melissa is passionate about ensuring the voices of people impacted by climate change are forefront in climate policy and project development. She holds a Master of Environmental Management and Development from the Australian National University.
Nayeem Emran | Economic Justice Strategic Lead
Nayeem is responsible for leading Oxfam Australia’s economic justice work.
He has more than 13 years’ experience driving sustainable change in collaboration with a range of stakeholders including unions, development partners and governments in Asia and the Pacific; and has worked for international organisations like the International Finance Corporation and International Labour Organization. Nayeem’s work is wide ranging, and includes policy reform, social and environmental compliance, gender empowerment and advocacy on workers’ rights.
Our spokespeople in country
Our media team can put you in touch with expert development spokespeople from these countries:
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- Bangladesh
- Cambodia
- China
- Fiji
- India
- Laos
- Malawi
- Mozambique
- Papua New Guinea
- Solomon Islands
- South Africa
- Sri Lanka
- Timor-Leste
- Vanuatu
- Vietnam
- Zimbabwe